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The US had the highest contamination rate, at 94%, with plastic fibres found in tap water sampled at sites including Congress buildings, the US Environmental Protection Agency’s headquarters, and Trump Tower in New York. Lebanon and India had the next highest rates. European nations including the UK, Germany and France had the lowest contamination rate.
There is a substantial threat to human health in China, and it could become a global epidemic if not contained. As an antibiotic resistant super bug is making its way across the country. Researchers concluded that the triple-threat posed by this new superbug poses a “substantial threat to human health because they are simultaneously hypervirulent, multidrug resistant, and highly transmissible.”
K. pneumoniae (ST11 CR-HvKP) is a deadly combination of two previously known strains of pneumonia; one which shrugs off all but the toughest antibiotics, and the other which is classified as “very severe” and “hypervirulent” in terms of lethality and how quickly it spreads.
Link: https://www.rt.com/usa/402407-equifax-data-breach/
Equifax Inc. says a breach of their system may affect 143 million people in the US. About 209,000 credit card numbers were also compromised, marking one of the worst breaches in US history due the scope and importance of information exposed.
The Equifax breach is different than other situations where data is compromised, due to the possibility that consumers may not be aware they are customers of the company. This occurs because Equifax obtains its data from credit card companies, retailers, banks and lenders which report on credit activity of individuals to credit reporting agencies.
Link: https://www.rt.com/news/402415-tsunami-quake-mexico-shore/
Eight countries have received tsunami alerts after an 8.0-magnitude earthquake struck 120 kilometers southwest of Mexico, according to US Geological Survey data.
The epicenter of the quake was at a depth of 33 km (21 miles), 123 km (76 miles) southwest of the town of Pijijiapan, not far from the Guatemalan border.
The US Tsunami Warning System said hazardous tsunami waves are likely to follow in eight neighboring countries, including Ecuador, Nicaragua, Panama, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, El Salvador, and Costa Rica.
75 students were detained and ordered to undergo blood and urine testing, all because one can of beer was discovered at a high school football game in New Jersey. Students who refused the screening faced five days of suspension under school district policy. “Students proceeded to emergency rooms in Dover, Denville, Morristown and Livingston,” “The emergency departments at Dover and at Morristown were not given any warning of what was coming, and were overwhelmed;” less than five produced a positive test result for alcohol.
Link: https://www.rt.com/usa/401667-wells-fargo-unwanted-accounts/
Tally of fake Wells Fargo accounts balloons to 3.5 million, the financial giant has only paid fines. Wells Fargo employees transferred money from a customer’s bank account and placed it into another account the employee created and that the customer did not know about. The bank paid out $185 million after three government lawsuits relating to the illegal banking activity. Wells Fargo employees admitted thousands of workers created the false accounts in an attempt to meet the bank’s sales targets and receive a bonus. Last year, the bank reported 2.1 million unwanted accounts that it created without customers’ consent. Revealed charging 500,000 people for auto insurance they didn’t need or asked for. Wells Fargo has stated it has stopped this particular sales target initiative.
Link: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/09/06/armed-taco-bell-workers-shoot-kill-robbery-suspect.html
Investigators say five Taco Bell employees were in the store when the suspects came in wearing masks and ordered them to get on the ground. Three of the employees opened fire, striking the suspect. A second suspect fled the scene. Police said no arrests had been made.
Link: https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201709071057164577-terrorists-defeat-syria/
In the past two weeks Syrian forces have inflicted a crushing defeat on the Islamic State terrorist group (also known as IS, ISIL or Daesh) in the eastern and central parts of the country, winning the battle near Deir ez-Zor, exceeding the significance and scale of all previous victories, chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the Russian General Staff Col. Gen. Sergey Rudskoy said on Wednesday.
Link: https://www.rt.com/usa/402256-florida-hurricane-irma-price-gouging/
The Florida Attorney General’s Office has received over 140 complaints about businesses allegedly taking advantage of people’s preparations for Category 5 Hurricane Irma, which may hit the state’s southern coast this weekend.
Some took to social media with screenshots from retailers, which appear to indicate drastic price hikes for goods like water and airplane tickets.
Link: https://www.rt.com/news/402270-syrian-military-israel-strike/
An Israeli plane has targeted Syrian army positions in the Hama province, killing two servicemen and causing material damage, Syrian general command said in a statement.
The incident took place early on Thursday, when an Israeli aircraft launched several missiles from Lebanese airspace, targeting Syrian Army positions near the city of Masyaf in Hama province. The attack killed two servicemen and inflicted material damage, SANA news agency reports, citing Syrian general command’s statement.
China is preparing to denominate crude oil futures contracts in Chinese yuan to be convertible into gold. The move would allow oil exporting countries to bypass benchmarks denominated in U.S. petrodollars. The move by the Chinese will allow oil exporting countries such as Iran and Russia to bypass U.S. sanctions by trading in yuan instead of U.S. dollars.To make the yuan denominated contracts more appealing, China intends to make the yuan fully convertible to gold on the Shanghai and Hong Kong exchanges.
Link: https://www.rt.com/news/402228-south-korea-thaad-protest/
Nearly 400 people showed up in front of the community's administrative building to protest the deployment of the advanced US missile defense system. The standoff occurred near the future site of the rocket launchers at the US base in Seongju.
The lifeless body of Diplomatic Security Special Agent Kurt Smolek was found in the Potomac River on Wednesday evening. Smolek (45) had been declared a “critical missing person” in a tweet released by the police department of the District of Columbia.
Link: http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/08/30/390000-syrians-eligible-bring-families-germany-2018/
The German government expects that by 2018 there will be around 390,000 Syrians with approved refugee status making them eligible to make advantage of family reunification rules.
Currently, there are around 267,500 Syrians with approved asylum status who are candidates for the family reunification scheme If each person eligible were to bring three other family members each, the number of migrants coming to Germany could increase by well over a million in the span of a year. From January 2015 to June 2017 the German government granted 230,000 family reunion visas.
Link: https://sputniknews.com/europe/201709041057061708-finland-terrorism-submachine-guns/
The Turku stabbings that killed two and injured eight have left a deep scar on Finnish society and spurred the authorities into action. To counter terrorism, Finland plans to equip all police patrol units with submachine guns. Furthermore, the government plans to re-write citizenship laws and criminalize the harboring of undocumented migrants. Asylum seekers whose claims were rejected will be subjected to threat assessment and detention, if necessary. Prime Minister Juha Sipilä stressed that no one, including the Church, may interfere in legally binding deportation decisions.
Link: http://www.activistpost.com/2017/09/yellowstone-approaches-record-levels-seismic-activity.html
A cluster of earthquakes at the Yellowstone Park volcano is the most active it’s been in recent history. The earthquake count is up to 2,357 since June with the largest having a magnitude of 4.4. A swarm of earthquakes is rather normal for Yellowstone, but the number of quakes is approaching a new record.
The current swarm is approaching the record set in 1985 when three months brought over 3,000 earthquakes. In 2010 a swarm brought over 2,000 earthquakes over a month. The last volcanic eruption within the caldera [crater] was 70,000 years ago
Link: https://www.rt.com/usa/401902-trump-pyongyang-nuclear-capabilities/
“President Trump reaffirmed the commitment of the United States to defending our homeland, territories, and allies using the full range of diplomatic, conventional, and nuclear capabilities at our disposal,” the White House said in a statement.
Link: https://www.rt.com/usa/401870-la-tuna-fire-update/
The La Tuna bush fire is now the largest by acres in the history of Los Angeles after burning more than 5,895 acres of land, according to fire service officials. Governor of California Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency in LA County, Sunday. The declaration will ensure that state and federal assistance will be provided as quickly as possible.
Link: https://www.rt.com/news/401904-syria-army-isis-deir-ezzor/
Syrian troops are now at the gates of the Islamic State-besieged city of Deir ez-Zor, the governor of the province said, as the government forces continue to press forward, obliterating terrorist positions in the vicinity and on the outskirts of the city. The key Euphrates city of Deir ez-Zor has been under terrorist siege for two and a half years, after being cut off from government-held areas in May 2015 during the jihadists’ offensive on Palmyra. The surrounded city, alongside a neighboring military base and airfield, have since been supplied with food and ammunition via airdrops by Russian and Syrian transport planes and helicopters.
An object appearing to be unexploded ordnance was found at disaster-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant by a worker, according to Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc., who reported the find to police.
The site where the Fukushima No. 1 plant is located used to be an airfield for the Japanese military during WWII.
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